Reasons to hack

From
Matt Black

Alan Hewer’s letter suggests that unlike hackers targeting big companies, no one would be sympathetic to a “burglar claiming to have only broken into your house to point out the inadequacy of your locks” (30 July, p 29).

This stands to reason only if one also accepts the inadequacy of Hewer’s analogy. To remedy this, the owner of the house would have to be charged with looking after the address details and house keys of millions of others around the world. What’s more, instead of using those keys to burgle others, the burglar should reveal his actions to embarrass …